The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 20, 1924, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N, D., as Second Class itter. BISMARCK TRIBUNE CO. Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. AND SMITH PAYNE, BURNS NEW YORK : Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use or republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not Publishers CHICAGO DETROIT otherwise entitled in this paper and also the local news pub-|h lished herein. : e All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year............see00. -$7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) . « 7.20 Daily by mail per year (in state outside Bismarck) 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota.............. 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) NORTH DAKOTA IN WINTER A traveler in Bismarck the past week might have won- red what had happened to the North Dakota winters he d read about. While storms were causing heavy loss to ern points and trains were being suspended, while north- ern Michigan and other parts of the country reported win- tev, and two men froze to death in the Ohio Valley, Bis murck residents were enjoying crimpy weather with lots o! sunshine and a blue azure sky to help make the days lright and cheerful. North Dakota virtually e: ate is not, of cour: vinter will be here in due course of time. joy it? Wealthy peopie flock to Montreal and Saranac Lake, New York, for winter sports. There is the opportunity for as attractive winter sports in every town and village in North Dakota. Skating rinks, toboggan slides, skiing and other sports may be conducted with proper cooperation in every community, at little expense, and at great benefit in health and in lifting the spirits of every individual who partici- rales: When Nerth Dakota winters, through a well defined pro- gram of winter sports, are made enjoyable in the open to red-blooded people, the word will seep out to the rest of the country, and the erroneous view that North Dakota is a nexi cor neighbor to the North Pole will be dissipated. ped winter last year. The red to the tropical zone and Why not en- SUPERNATURAL Power is chained up all around us in queer form. magical power of virbations is just beginning to be under- stuod. Radio is one way it’s put to common use. A Cincinnati church has the second largest bell in the world. Moscow leading. The Ohio bell, 12 feet high, weighs 15 tons. It’s sounded by tapping with a hammer. Once it was rung with the clapper—but only once—for the powerful vibrations shattered windows for a block and threatened to shake down the bell tower. Eventually such force will be used in unique weys. We live in what our ancestors would have called a super- natural world. The Twenty-five years ago today, New York City had less than 200 autos. Few thought “horseless carriages” would ever become plentiful. We wonder what another 25 years will bring forth in the way of airplanes. Once a thing is perfected enough to use, our generation “goes to it” fast. Our progress is considerably due to men- tal attitude—willingness to discard the old and adopt the new. To introduce a new device in olden times was about as easy as starting a new religion. CHARACTER Two tarantulas were confined in Vernon Kellogg’s labor- atory, says his bock. “Human Lite as a Biologist Sees It.” One of these spiders was by nature a sweet - dispositioned pet. He allowed his owner to fondle him and would walk on his bare arm without attempting injury. The other went into a rage and reared back to strike with his poison, when- ever Kellogg came near. Yet both were tarantulas. Environment and training are not all, not by a long shot. A lot of what we are—our character—was born in us, and not altogther a matter of heredity. BALLOT In Chicago, voters encountered a ballot as big as a stove mat. with names of nearly 300 candidates. That’s the na- tional tendency. Each year the ballots become more com- plicated and bewildering. How many people get “balled up”| and vote for candidates they never intended? How many inva‘idate their ballots by marking too many names? How many know nothing about the merits or undesirable features of even a third of the candidates? The total must run into millions. h year it gets worse. Eventuaily the national elec- tion may become a sort of half-blind lottery. PROSPERITY cel industry, barometer of general business conditions and individual prosperity, is swiftly climbing back toward ful! - time operations. Output of pig iron in October was nearly a fifth more than in the month before. A gigantic boom is apparently approaching, with noth- ing on the horizon that might stave it off. Railroads, for i nee, are handling enormous tonnages of freight, in one t week breaking all former records. PRICE PROHIBITIVE Japanese scientist claims he turned mercury into gold ahead of Dr. Miethe of Germany. The Japanese is Dr. H. Nagaoka of Tokio University. What difference does it make. which was first, as long as the price is prohibitive? The German found it cost two million dollars to make a pound of gold out of mercury. .The process is extremely im- portant scientifically, however (if it is true), and the possi- bilities it may lead to are enough to keep financiers and rich men #wake nights. SPEED The elder John D. Rockefeller is traveling more slowly. Ha finds that a trip of 200 miles in one day tires him too much. Speed is the gait of youthful individuals and youthful “nations. As they get older, they begin to realize that they {Mrs. John (for Editorial Review Comments reproduced in this the opinion of Th are presented hers our readers may of important issue: being discussed in the day. the press of HAS (Christian Science Monitor) Throughout the ages mankind has sought out ways by which the weath- er might in some degree be controll ed or regulated, Especially keen has been the quest of the rainmaker. He resorted to incantations, to the us in the h estimation of the superstitious, been cruder and no less inef- fective material methods in his ef- fort to wring moisture from obdur- ate clouds. As industriously, though perhaps less persistently, have oth- ers sought ways by which fair weath- er might be produced. Now comes the joud-shooter,” who instead of attacking from beneath, us formerly, utilizes the modern devices which have been provided to aid him claims to be able to “shoot down” moisture from the skies or to dispel and scatter hovering banks of fog at will. It is admitted by those who have been conducting the experiments, the most recent of which was over Boll- ing Field, Washington, D. C., that they have su ing, on a limited le, the practica- bility of a theory long maintained. In the language of Dr. L. Francis Warren of Harvard University, who devised the process employed, the proved success of the experiment “means that a celestial been reached in the affairs of man.’ He presents this hopeful forecast: “Commercial rainmaking now li within the grasp of man and he employ to this end one of natu cheapest commodities, namely com- mon or garden sil at xn cost of about $3 a ton, which, outside of maintaining the equipment and oper- ating the planes, will be the only charge.” The possibilities are alluring. Not only the ranchman and orchardist in the semi-arid regions of the western sections of the United States, but the farmer in the middle west, in the south, or in New England, may dream of the early dawn of that day when he can water his land as he chooses, foreing down moisture when it is} needed, and even dispelling it, it when rainfall would be un- rable. But will neighbors all rec as to just what particular brand of weather they should have? Men have been known to differ con- cerning far less vital matters. So now, it May be, there will be divi sions and blocs, composed on one side} of those who want rain for their, corn, and on the other side of those who want fair weather for their hay. In the city there will be those, per- haps, who will be known as the Pic- nickers’ League, or Fair Weather Party, demanding that fog and rain} clouds be dispersed, while those com- prising the League of Back-Yard Gardeners insist that the clouds be “shot for rain. Who shall decide? It has been estimated that a dense fog costs the city of London approxi- mately $5,000,000 a day. Only slight- ly less inconvenience and e: i said to result from such vi in New York City and its i vicinity. Estimating the area affe ed as 117 square miles, or thereabout, in both-eases, it properly equipped airplanes would be able to dissipate the clouds by the method devised. If by the same pro- cess rain could be made to fall abun- dantly upon similar areas of fields, gardens or orchards where it is needed, surely the accomplishment would be great. That person must be courageous who is r y to scoff at or doubt such a possibility. We have all laughed at the claims of the rainmakers and the mysterious meth-| ods they employed in attempting to work their charms. But out of the fog of superstition, by methods as sensible and as sound as those em- ployed by the practical rainmaker of | today, there has come a clearer vi- sion of that dominion over all the earth which has been promised, and which man is learning to claim and enjoy, seems, de ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON “We want some more please,” said the Twins. “Good!” said the Riddle Lady.| “I'm just trying to think up a good one.” ancy und Nick got as close as| ever they could, but the Fat Man! of Bombay puffed so loudly when he breathed, poor thing, that it didn't do much good. They were sure they weren't going to hear a word. Nancy was greatly relieved when all at once the fat man said, “Oh, ! shucks! I never guessed a riddle i my life and I'm not going to begin now. If you don’t mind, Mrs. John, I think I'll just go and sit on your nice little front porch and smoke my pipe.” “Oh, yes do, Mister Fat Man,” said that was the only name he had), so away he waddled. Everyone could hear twice as well after he left. “Here's a new riddle,” Riddle Lady. riddles, said the So she began: “He sits on a throne, And he rides a white horse, And he wears twenty rings on his hand, Rows of soldiers stand stiffly, Not moving of course, Just waiting to do his’ command. “A dozen long feathers Adorn his fine hat, And a buckle both handsome and THE RAINMAKER COME AT LAST of socalled charms, and to what,| | and ceded merely in prov-| epoch has | 8 | La corn | si THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE EVERYIAING | HAVE i | 'Tisn’t hard Ten to determine, thousand worked hard on his! hose. “His crown is of gold, Set with rubies bright red, PAULA PERIER { TO JOHN ALDEN PRESCOTT | Mon Ami: It is a long time since And with diamonds und sapphires} Gad) aaah i] have put those words to a letter Oh, it surely must be {to you, my friend. When I wrote Quite a load on his head, ithem today I was surprised that And muss up all his periwig curls. jthey did not make my heart beat pile fone second faster. “His dishes are made ‘gaining my sense of humor. 1 Of the richest of war [thought I had lost it forever for And his furniture’s certainly grand,'yhen I wrote those words at the top Why they say that the backs of this letter they simply meant to Of his dining room chairs, me their simple translation, “my Contain gems quite as big as your friend.” hand. i Twas greatly surpris jfound out that this was so. jmember that when 1 them I got all quiver: would not -behave itself. Then, Jack, I lived only for the |moment shorter or longer when I |should: see you Then, it |seemed to me that hell could hold nbdaten sce , .,|No»greater torture than to live out- “King!” cried everybody just like ide the vision of your ey that. “Why is Paula Perier writing like _ “Oh, dear, I just knew I was mak- this to me now?” you are asking ing it too easy,” suid the Riddle! yourself «now. i nit give u prize to,” | am not really writing it to you, «> an, Jack, Lam writing it to myself. I said Nick “want to put it on this nice clean you say he ‘sheet of paper and see how it looks. king, or i: want to demonstrate to myself ! Es that although I have not seen you suid the Riddle Lady. “be-|for a long time and it probably will real kings don’t dress up like’ e 4 longer time before I look upon except on very spe Goede (ee uurice olaaiminaree’ But in story-books they al)" As I sit here in the charming patio And in fairy tales. jof my lovely Hollywood home, I am id the Wise-Man-of- conscious. of the song of the birds, king can't wear h I think I am re- “He lives in a castle, On top of a hill, 'Mid gardens sing, And when you're grown up, He'll be living there still, This story-book, nd my heart where dickey-birds i fairy-tale—” everybody “Oh, that’s all right,” kindly. “But why did ust a story-book the fragrance of the flowers and crown when he goes to bed, can he? above ail the permeating golden Although I've heard it said ‘Uneasy ‘flood. of sunshint hend that wears a crown.’ Tam happe, happy, Kappy. ulnayaybad qnxy doubts: There, I have written it three (lo Wes Continsied) “times. Do you remember how I used | 192 (Copyright, ee, Inc.) jtv always make you say you loved NEA Se were discovered by men waiting for! \their wives to dress for church, | The man at the bottom of most things is usually up a tree. Life, at best, is a gamble. And] f { Experts find music will not charm } s so next time you see one iti is safer to run than sing. | VoT Vice tT BE FOR You, The future usually becomes the past without anything happening. They seldom have jlightning in the polar regions, so that would be a dandy place to go to tell a lie. We can all be thankful Thanksgiving that saxophones hard to learn to play. this ite A wise man knows he is acting foolish to fall in love this close to Christmas. Women's clothes are they are almost as funny me! funny, as the so The old-fashioned woman drowned her troubles’ poisons now. who him It must be awful to be a school teacher and have so many children you would break your neck. The flea hop is the latest dance step. It is quite an improvement over the St, Vitus. When it comes to quail hunting most men are fine ut shooting spar- rows. It is estimated a great many peo- ple will get real strong exercising to get warm this winter. BUY "DSELICATS Among modern home inconven- iences are gas heaters, around which big, And his hair’s curled so finely, I'm positive that have ail eternity ahead of them, so what’s the use of|rush- in; * The wise man doesn’t allow anything to annoy him. A “hundred years from now, it won’t matter anyway. The des- _ tination is the cemetery. Why hurry “His robe is of velvet, And trimmed up with ermine, As white as the midwinter snows, And ‘as silkworme make’ sities Any person would think ’twas a wig. |instead of using it for their future. there is no place to chew tobacco. e Most men try to: forget their past Men who catch on to things too quickly let go the same way. siPerhaps a third ef our cuss words-ts: HE JUMPS ON ME AND WALLORS ME EVERY CHANCE HE Gels AND TAKES AWAY ALMOST vis a great jokester or a fairy god- tv Doss NOT sAv CONG ON THE “SSSGBN’ me three times? It always seemed to me that the number three had a certain magic. Having said “I love you, PauJa” once, you might possibly forget—saying ‘I love you, Paula” twice made me yours for I believed you would always remember—and when you said, “I love you, Paula” for the third time I felt that you were always mine and neither of us would forget. Perhaps it was not- all in my imagination, perhaps’ you did love me, for I know that I loved you well enough to entrust you with my body, my mind and my soul—there you see the magic number three egain. Now you mean so little to me that as I wrote “mon ami” at the top of this page I could not visualize your face, I could not remember the tone of your voice outside of a dozen men who are really only acquaintances I have met out here. I think perhaps I have over-stated that last thought for we can never be acquaintances after what has gone before. I know I am your friend and I think you are mine, but what I have been trying to say to you that you really are not a neces- sary part of my life or even my thoughts any more. Why am I writing all this to you, you probably are asking again, be- cause Mrs. Summers has just told me that little Jack, your child and mine, has been given the income of a large block of steel stock. 1 am not sure that whether Fate @ mother and I can’t help wondering’ just the same why my baby which I brought into the world in such overwhelming sorrow has been sig- naled out for such great reward. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) the man who never takes a long-shot seldom shoots very far. The -handles on aluminum frying pans don’t get so hot but the pans are too light for spanking children. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) BY CONDO IF You'tu STEP OUT IN FRONT HERE I: CAN TELL You BETTER, NOW, THEN, THE BIGN ON WOuR WIN Dow TECCS THE PUBLIC THAT “THIS PLACE} OF BYSINGSS (tS SHORT ON THE uw) ooo THURSDAY, NOVEMBER: THE PHANTOM ALIBI By Albert Apple It is human nature to dodge responsibility. Man is for- ever seeking alibis, blaming his troubles on anything except himself. Illustrating this, Dr. W. R. Riddell points out that it is a universal custom to call a disease by a name indicating that it had a foreign origin. For instance, take the mysterious malady we call Spanish influenza. The Spanish call it Italian fever: The Germans {eall it the Russian pestilence. The Russians call it Chinese jcatarrh. All countries dodge responsibility. Take another disease: It might just as properly be called | Japanese measles as German measles. When a man makes a blunder, he nearly always has an jexcuse on the tip of his tongue. Even though the blunder jhe musters up conditions and outside influences to alibi him. ; And usually believes he is a victim rather than an offender. ‘is a direct result of his own personal carelessness or inability;. | Samples: i day... i “It wasn’t my fault. jed.” “Oh, Id have gotten it done, but it was such a nasty ;_ “I meant to do that, and knew it should be done, but Mr. | | Blank attracted by attention and ” I didn’t know the pistol was load- The record of inefficiency is written in excuses. | In recent year ‘alibis—the invisible. Certain ‘ , man has discovered a new gold mine of crimes, which used to be con- ; sidered matters of personal will-power and power of choice jare now blamed on mental weaknesses inherited from an- jcestors, or to the influence of “the jazz age,” or to brains {unstabilized by the nervous strain of wartime. reason. It is, for instance, m | sibility. | alert against future mistakes. they see many types of vessels—a ba lantic liner. New York, Nov. 2U.—Managers of Broadway lobster palaces are pray- ing for a cold snap., A warm Octo- ber didn’t do the cloak-and-suit Bus- iness any good and when the cloak- and-suit business slumps, business in jazz and food likewise slumps. When out-of-town buyers arrive they generally are welcomed with a bottle of gin and a pair of theater tickets and anything else needed to go with that—goodfellowship and all that sort of thing, you know. Thus the dance halls, ‘the supper clubs and such places flourish and wax fut. And tne checkroom girls and the waiters roll in tips. But this year it was a brown Oc- tober, a very brown October. Buy- ers didn’t come to New York because they didn't know what to buy, fur coats or bathing suits. | And, in the passing, the buyers from one big Chicago firm do not ac- cept theater tickets, booze or any “Do's”. are generally more effective than “don'ts,” so Mrs, Jones of Any- | town had learned in bringing, up her | family, of youngsters, Of course she’was, like most peo- ple, inclined to shout “don’t” at one of the children, as often us not, But on the whole She had found that if they were proerly ‘instructed in what to do, the chances were that sooner or later they would not have to be corrected so frequently. But there are a few’little health don'ts that parents should enforce with considerable rigidity. Among them are these: Don’t breathe through the mouth.| wre. folk dances stepped to accordian accompaniment. FABLES ON HEALTH SOME HEALTH “DON’TS” Psycho-analysis caught popular fancy largely because i* furnishes a wealth of new alibis for human weakness and erring. Psychic cults thrive as never before, for the same uch easier to blame the stars lor the influence of the departed than to shoulder respon- The most unfortunate phase is that dodging responsi- bility tends to make people blunder again and again. The alibi is a weakener, a destroyer. our medicine is painful, but it strengthens and makes us Standing up and taking with their native In the Hudson River rge, a tug, a ferry and a transat- other sort of gratuities from Ue trade. They're not allowed to. How- ever, they may put such items as theater tickets, suppers and pleasure tax rides on their expense accounts without question from the business office, Arthur Fellig is a son of immi- grant parents. He has an inborn love of music and spends much of his time playing on a cheap vio Occasionally he visits a big music store on 42nd street and although he is poorly dressed he receives the ut- most courtesy. He is welcomed intd* the violin room and given access to the violins there. Some of them are priced ut $1000, some at $5000. Fel- lig tenderly picks them up, plays a selection or two and carefully puts them down. That is satisfaction to a ‘soul that craves something finer than his purse allows, JAMES W. DEAN. Enlarged tonsils. and respiratory troubles will result. Don’t overeat. : Don't sit all bent up and stoupedy in your chair. . Don't neglect to brush your teeth, keep the mouth well washed out and to bathe frequently. Don't take dirty candy or gum from other youngsters. Be sanitary, Don’t ‘lie around the house. Get out in the air and play. Get tired and sleep soundly. A New York toy-maker has in- | vented a doll that can, recite poems and sing up-to-date songs.